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Trigger types

Record events and schedules that fire workflows.

3 min read · Updated Jul 4, 2026

Workflows fire when their trigger fires. Tormano supports these trigger types:

Record event triggers

Fire when records change:

  • Record created — a Contact, Deal, Donation, etc. is created.
  • Record updated — any field on the record changes.
  • Field changed — a specific field changes (e.g. "Lifecycle changes to Donor").
  • Stage changed — a deal (or fundraising) stage changes.
  • Form submitted — a web form or donation form is submitted.

Scheduled / time triggers

Fire on a schedule or a date relative to record data:

  • Scheduled — a cron-style recurring schedule (e.g. every day at 9am org time), useful for fiscal-year resets and recurring digests.
  • Date-based — relative to a date field, e.g. "30 days after a contact's last activity" or "7 days before a grant deadline".

Other triggers

  • Email event — an email interaction (such as an open or click) occurs.
  • Manual — you run the workflow on a record by hand.

There is no "record deleted" trigger and no inbound-webhook trigger — a webhook is an action a workflow can take, not something that starts one.

One trigger per workflow

Each workflow has exactly one trigger. To fire on multiple events, build multiple workflows.